Orbital Reviews

A une époque du tout caméra, concevoir un produit qui tourne le dos à la caméra pour permettre une autre relation à la résolution des tâches est remarquable.
La clientèle en verra-t-elle l'utilité ? Il n'est en effet de loin pas systématiquement nécessaire de se voir constamment.
Question tout de même : que faire lorsqu'on souhaite se voir, ne serait-ce que pour s'assurer que la communication passe bien ? Si ce point trouvait une réponse interne, Orbital serait un outil hors pair

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Now that the camera has invaded our lives, designing a product that turns its back on the camera to enable a different relationship to task resolution is but remarkable !

Will customers see the point? It is by far not systematically necessary to see each other constantly. Especially if you want to focus on the task

The question remains: what do you do when you want to see each other, if only to ensure that communication is going well?
If this point could be answered within Orbital, this platform would be an outstanding tool !

I bought a T4, everything is great, except the bearable small glitches that would be fixed soon I am sure, AND the biggest problem is no CNAME and Appsumo's name is fixed on the Galaxy card. I hope the developer / author will consider client would like to have their own branding in this kind of things.

Looks like a good opportunity for communities to connect without using ZOOM or overpriced platforms. Will be a shining star five taco product when the Cname and white label option is available.

The tool offer only:
1. Chat
2. Basic design
3. Audio

The issues:
1. Audio
Space issue, in one room maybe 10 people can get in to be able to be visible.
Open space your circle sound is limited.

2. Privacy issue, cant lock, cant limit spaces, everyone can see EVERYTHING.
Any embed, notes, links, any tool, or single feature can be seen everywhere without controlling them no matter of putting they or who can see them.
(for me it mean all the tools are useless)
The issue also everyone can put where ever they want, your space will look like a huge junk pile after a while.

3. Tools:
Sticky note, text size no control or responsive with the note size.
The board tool looks like a third-party tool that I need to sign, and also only a few features. (very basic)
Embed tool, not every site works, and their colors change via the Theme set.
Meet tool, you can not set up, need to do it over and over. (no option for multi-account)
Upload tool, cant control what type of files. (also guest can upload what ever)

The "location" has the option for "has separate audio zone" but has size limits.
What if I want to make a big meeting room or showroom for 50-100 people?

The same issue for your own audio circle limits voice/hearing if you doing it in an open space.

And the voice volume change when you go far from the source, I can understand that but not effective for UX. is a virtue space for improving UX!

The guest comes in and can see everything, what if it is my client and I dont want him to see what I am sharing with my board or notes or anything ...

And why does everyone needs to see everyone's notes or whatever everywhere,
for now, you have the control to delete everything even other users' placements on the space. Later you will need to ask them to delete the note from the middle of the screen...
do you understand what I mean... no space/room/area limitation. or privacy to see/hide the control.
Everyone can put or do anywhere whatever and everyone will see it.

No privacy or any kind of control, HUGE ISSUE, for now, I can't do anything besides using the chat and voice. (for me is just wait or to refund)

The roadmap has a long long list of basic features, no clue for EST.

If this is your concept to make a limitation (size/shape) border with a circle and everything is in the "open" I dont see any kind of use for me.

Each "location" is limited with circle size and shape. (limit the option of use with this virtual space.

Guest dont have any limitations besides time, and their names can be Guest...
You invite 10, if no one put their name you need to ask them..."WHO ARE YOU"

Guest can see all the features when are they logging why? they are not users...
Need to create onboarding for them or to have any basis of control.

This tool is far from being finished, we can just invest our money here and hope those features will come and the company will survive in the market...

Although I wasn't completely clear on how this worked at first, I went ahead and bought it anyway.

After messing around for a while I am pretty impressed with how this all works. It's definitely a bit different from some of the competitors and it's a screaming deal for what you are getting.

Right now it's only audio meetings (which is actually better in many ways) but Video Meetings are next up in the Roadmap along with Cname.

I had a long talk with the founder in chat and I must say I was impressed with the desire for feedback and responsiveness to suggestions.

This is a great app for a community feel for either a company or a small social group.

4 stars for today but 5 stars for the coming roadmap and where I think Orbital will be in 6 months. Buying for the future!

I had tested this some time ago and I was blown away by the simplicity and power of it. Other products in this space would consist of things like Reslash (a past deal here) or even something like Gather(Town) where you are dealing with a virtual space in some way, shape or form. When I had tested this initially, it was (and still is) voice-only, however, looking at their roadmap, they are adding VIDEO - so that is something to also consider when evaluating this deal!
The overall dashboard or admin view of the back-end is a bit...minimal. I am on the fence of whether or not this is a good or bad thing. You get the sense you want more at your fingertips, but at the same time it's refreshing to not be inundated in so many settings that are largely meaningless. That being said, a lot of the admin power lies inside the galaxy where you have the ability to edit the space, drop pins, and enable audio zones.

Some things I would really like to see would be the following (mostly all related to audio zones - key feature), and some I saw are already on the roadmap:
-The ability to set owners (non-admins) of audio zones, aka one's office, so that they can treat it as an open door policy where other users can simply drop in, ask something and leave, but if necessary, the owner can also lock entrance to the zone or enable some sort of knock feature to allow others in. Would hate for Alice in accounting to drop in on the part where I'm firing Dave from dev...ENOUGH WITH THE CAT GIFS, ALICE!
-The ability to modify audio zones' shape. Right now it's a radius and while it somewhat makes sense, considering most of the add-ons are square/rectangular in shape, I would like to have an audio zone that mirrors that so it's cleaner.
-For embeds and videos, it would be nice to gate their sound behind audio zones too. Right now the audio bleeds to the entire "galaxy." It would be nice to have a video provide ambient music for the entire space, but allow Steve from service to rock out to Punk Rock in his office without disturbing others, or us disturbing him. This would allow for corridors of space where you can personalize the experience and isolate multiple sound sources.

One thing that was really cool was the ability for me to pull the link to my Viloud (previous deal) channel's player and use that as an embed source, so I can play my own custom music playlist in the galaxy. Once again, thinking about isolating sources to audio zones, wouldn't it be great to have a training video playlist, embed it in a training area, and new users can simply go in there, view the content, and be entirely isolated from the rest of the galaxy? A similar use case is the tranquility space added by default, I think a place to escape with sound exclusive to it would be the next step.

Video is going to be a massive plus, so I'm excited to see how that's implemented. Overall I think this is a great deal for a solid product so far.

I bought this deal and usually I wait a few days to try tools out, but I am eager to implement more "humanization" into my remote team. I did a demo for my team of this tool today and they are very excited. They will have "office hours" so anytime a Team Member needs assistance they can join the galaxy and meet with whomever they need to chat with. I feel this tool is going to really help with virtual coworking and bringing our team members together.

My only con is I would like to create different galaxies and assign my quota of users to specific galaxies. However, this is not a deal-breaker for me and I am happy to buy another code to create a new galaxy for other means, and in the future, I would be happy to upgrade my plan monetarily to support this platform.

5 Tacos from me!

I wanted to be the first person to review it!

I am a psychologist and i see mind blowing the use cases
with this amazing app. I have just bought Tier 3 with the promise
that they are going prioritize CNAME with SSL asap.

I am yet use it but the team is amazing and i just bought it
for love of this team, hoping it is only gonna get better

I will come back and update my review with honest feedback
but i love the app and team behind it already!!

My advice - Try it!! It already has so much
you won't regret it

Good Job, Team!